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• have a maximum of 15 full-time and 15 part-time employees
• operate its bed and breakfast 24 hours a day and seven days a week
• operate its visitors center from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days a week
• have a maximum production of 1,200 barrels annually
• have a maximum of 5,000 barrels of spirits stored at the facility

With no solution to Campbellsburg’s deficit in sight, Mayor Rex Morgan announced he will step down in hopes the new council and mayor scheduled to take office in 2017 will find a way forward.
Morgan favored raising more revenue through increasing the insurance premium tax 3 percent and by instituting an employment flat tax.
City council agreed to raise the insurance tax by 2 percent, but balked at the employment tax idea — both when it arose in 2015 and again when it resurfaced in October.

Sam Capasso of Pendleton is dreaming of a bright Christmas, to paraphrase the famous holiday tune. As bright as the 30,000-light display he creates in his front yard.
As the creative mind behind Hickory Hollow Lights, a computerized Christmas show on a quiet subdivision street, Capasso tries to imagine how seasonal songs can translate into a cascade or a chase of twinkling lights.
“I work on this all year,” he said. “This is my hobby.”

So far, in terms of the Henry County Courthouse renovation and expansion, community members have expressed the most excitement about the court functions temporarily moving to Eminence.
As planning continues on the best way to provide more space for courts and the related offices since 2014, the idea the district and circuit courts taking over the former Cook’s pharmacy and hardware store in Eminence has generated the strongest reactions.

Being from a family with a long history of volunteering and working with fire and emergency medical services, the new director of Henry County EMS says she was born with the desire to help others.
Paige Lucas’ father Ronnie had long talks with her after his 24-hour shifts for Shelby County EMS and drove her around in a fire truck when she was a child.
Her uncle Gary, as the Eminence Fire Department chief, trained her as a firefighter and didn’t take it easy on her. Her uncle Steve now serves as the chief of the city fire department.